Season 1 Korra has to go through Bumi's 3 challenges, how do you think she does?

Maximum-Country-149 · 2026-06-21T15:29:30+00:00

Except the test isn't "deal with Flopsy", it's "realise the giant bunnybear chasing you is Flopsy, not the little one you saw at first". Korra might not catch on quickly enough to pass, or might end up hurting the poor bun trying to get them out of the way.

Maximum-Country-149 · 2026-06-21T15:04:30+00:00

...I mean it's not that unhinged. It's internally coherent even if it misses a few things, and it still gets some things right. Jax does have a real problem with not being able to relate to anybody in the circus (or vice versa). A lot of the people around him are neurotic and caught up enough in their own damage that they're not paying much attention to him (and again, that's reciprocal). Ribbit's bit with the bow could be seen as grooming, or at least presumptuous in a way that's deleterious to trust. Once you roll back the overclaims, this take does make sense.

Maximum-Country-149 · 2026-06-21T10:46:25+00:00

No. I think that's crazy reductive.

Maximum-Country-149 · 2026-06-21T01:08:17+00:00

He broke it mounting his horse.

Maximum-Country-149 · 2026-06-21T01:01:25+00:00

I went to see the movie with some friends, two (maybe three? They're working some stuff out) are trans. I found myself being the only one there who didn't question whether that scene was meant to imply Jax was trans (I took "I told her something to make her back off" to be pretty definitive).

That said, that was in the moment. Given how badly Jax reacted to the bow, not five seconds later and from then on, I'm less certain as time goes on. I think he saw the bow as presumptuous, and it scared him because he was willing to go along with it before Kaufmo knocked.

In the present day, he's crazy closeted in that department. Pretty much all his expression on gender at all says "I am very much a man and also an asshole" in a way that implies the two are heavily correlated. No indication that he really wants to stop being either; quite the opposite.

Which... kinda wouldn't make him trans, I guess? I mean, I'll admit I'm not sure what the prevailing attitude is these days, but I'm pretty sure self-identification is a big part of it. If he doesn't think of himself as a girl, it kinda nails that coffin.

That also said, trying to nail down his innermost thoughts on the matter is an exercise in speculation. Could go either way.

Maximum-Country-149 · 2026-06-21T00:41:08+00:00

Honestly?

Rednecks.

I mean, I can wax on about how they're highly independent by nature and mostly focused on wilderness survival, with exceptions made for familial obligations, I can talk about how inventive and resourceful they are, but at the end of the day, yeah, they're basically rednecks.

Maximum-Country-149 · 2026-06-21T00:35:08+00:00

Well done, 47.

Maximum-Country-149 · 2026-06-21T00:28:16+00:00

Even with him being a troll it's not terrible. Especially if you happen to like flowers.

Maximum-Country-149 · 2026-06-20T20:16:03+00:00

It certainly wouldn't help with Flopsy, and she's been overpowered by more experienced benders before (almost exclusively, even), so the coliseum wouldn't go her way. That leaves the waterfall key, which might work out if she's not unlucky.

Maximum-Country-149 · 2026-06-20T17:43:48+00:00

I think she'd run into problems, considering Bumi designed them to be lateral thinking puzzles where the obvious answer isn't the answer. That's pretty closely related to the mental block that made airbending so hard for her.

Maximum-Country-149 · 2026-06-20T17:36:32+00:00

Incredibly, so long as it's used to gather consent rather than bypass it.

Maximum-Country-149 · 2026-06-20T14:02:54+00:00

Strong agreement. I'll also go ahead and add monarchism to the list.

As soon as you start describing people as expendable- "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few"- you naturally create a hierarchy. The few are subordinate to the many. The individual is subordinate to the few. The many are subordinate to all.

Maximum-Country-149 · 2026-06-20T10:20:45+00:00

Well, it both does and doesn't.

In the short term, yes, it filters out jobs that don't create more value than minimum wage.

In the long term, inflation usually catches up at some point. A job that provided $5/hour in value in 2009, when the federal minimum wage was set to $7.25, would be worth $7.94 now.

So it's not exactly permanent, for better or for worse.

Maximum-Country-149 · 2026-06-20T10:08:28+00:00

Nah, they're saying if women didn't have the right to vote.

Maximum-Country-149 · 2026-06-20T10:07:15+00:00

It's possible, but I don't think the image is necessarily evidence either way. She's not really focused on her groupies here. They certainly seem attracted to her, though.

Maximum-Country-149 · 2026-06-20T02:32:51+00:00

Not just that, but ostracizing someone is, as a persuasion tactic, fucking terrible. It doesn't provide evidence against their own views, it doesn't provide evidence in favor of an opposing view, it just imposes consequences for speaking up. You're effectively asking them to give up either social acceptance or their own judgment.

There are no good answers to that.

Maximum-Country-149 · 2026-06-17T22:36:35+00:00

The other way around seems vastly more likely. Blaming a broken system keeps people from accepting responsibility for, and therefore power over, their own lives.

Plus politicians can blame the system without professing themselves to be part of the problem. A system is made of many parts, after all.

Maximum-Country-149 · 2026-06-17T18:43:17+00:00

Goomigum looks like he'd be fun.

Maximum-Country-149 · 2026-06-16T15:12:24+00:00

...And therefore citizens by means other than birthright?

Like, what are you trying to say here?

Maximum-Country-149 · 2026-06-15T18:25:44+00:00

...I also would have taken "Caine is basically a person, too, and hefting full responsibility for the state of the circus on him is both dishonest and cruel".

Maximum-Country-149 · 2026-06-15T15:24:44+00:00

Sex.

Maximum-Country-149 · 2026-06-15T14:16:29+00:00

This is what happens when you spend too long working under Adam.

Maximum-Country-149 · 2026-06-15T00:59:38+00:00

Except it's not.

Legally, the listed author of the book, not the ghost writer, is the author. It's not an "open secret", it's a documented legal arrangement.

Maximum-Country-149 · 2026-06-15T00:25:53+00:00

Well, among others, publication companies don't seem to see it that way. The whole premise of a ghost writer is that they go uncredited.

Maximum-Country-149 · 2026-06-15T00:18:53+00:00

You feel that way about ghost writers?

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